Jill_Rosen
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 Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject: Stay-at-homes moms - in danger of extinction |
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July 13, 2008
Stay-at-homes moms - in danger of extinction
This is from the front page of today's The Sun, of Baltimore Maryland
Highlights:
* ... employers often offer women returning to work up to 40 percent less money because of their resume gap. It's known as the "mommy discount."
* ... Ellen Galinsky, president and co-founder of the Families and Work Institute, says that the economy always drives behavior, including that of mothers who believe in staying home. During the widespread corporate downsizing of the 1990s, she points out, the rate of mothers working spiked. "With men being downsized, and job insecurity more rampant, women went into the work force to support and protect their families," she says.
* ... According to the Families and Work Institute's most recent National Study of the Changing Workforce, 48 percent of women in dual-earner households with kids say that men should earn the money and women should take care of the home and children.
The full text of the article is available at
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.to.mom13jul13,0,5294624.story |
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